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Change: It is not to be wondered at that the Romans should have adopted the Phoenician term for hempen cloth, since hemp fibre and fabric was for millennia the quintessential maritime material. Nothing else was used, by choice, for marine rope and cordage: from the days of the ocean-going Phoenicians   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6789)

Change: In the days before the Roman destruction of Carthage, and even later, it had been possible to sail directly from the Mediterranean to India through   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6830)

Change: which gives usthus the English napkin and (possibly by thethis samelater pattern of descent) the Spanish naipes.In its reference to hemp, the Spanish term shows closest connection to Chinese and Persian words for cards. The Chinese call them ‘hempen birds’ while a Persian term, Ganjifah,   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6701)

Change:  It is the imagery of the other manuscripts, which accurately identify the major stars of the celestial highroad and of the compoass which originally formed the basis for the imagery of our Atouts in the tarot.AS to how or why western card-packs should refer to these things: that is,   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6713)

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Change: Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the most star-filled book of the Bible, the Book of Job, offers an extended metaphor of the life of the monk as mariner.Gregory’sGregory of Tours' aim, of course, was not to divide the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6509)

Change: which was to be the standard term for cards in Spain, refers to hemp-cloth or fibre, and ultimately derives from the Phoenician wordmeans mappa,'sheetlets' meaningof hemp-cloth. Investigation ofFor thethis Spanishreason, term,it therefore,shows doesan notapparently greatlycloser contributeconnection to   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 4690)

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